Interview – “Bright Star” at Cinnabar

My guests on the 06/05/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Megan Bartlett and David Bradbury from the Cinnabar Theater production of Bright Star. The musical runs at Warren Auditorium in Ives Hall on the campus of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park through June 29. Click below to listen: ********** Click…

Interview – “Company” at Spreckels Theatre Company

My guests on the 05/01/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Andrew and Maeve Smith, cast members from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Company. The musical runs in the Codding Theatre at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through May 18. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for…

Interview – “The Broadway Bash” at Cinnabar

My guest on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 04/24/25 on The Drive on 95.5 was Diane Dragone, Executive Director at Cinnabar Theater. Diane promoted Cinnabar’s Broadway Bash, a fundraiser featuring Broadway and film musical performer Liz Callaway. The Bash will help raise funds to build a new Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma. Diane…

Review: “Morning Sun” in Rohnert Park

How interesting can a play be if it tells the story of an unremarkable person’s life told by that unremarkable person and the unremarkable people that surround them?  How unremarkable? So unremarkable that playwright Simon Stephens doesn’t even give them names in his cast list for Morning Sun, now playing in the Condiotti Experimental Theatre…

Interview – “Steel Magnolias” at Cinnabar

My guests on the 02/13/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Sarah Dunnavant and Miriam Ani from the Cinnabar Theater production of Steel Magnolias. The show runs at Warren Auditorium in Ives Hall on the campus of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park through February 23. Click below to listen: ********** Click…

Preview: Sonoma/Napa Winter Theatre

North Bay theatre companies have their collective fingers crossed that audiences will continue to come out and support them in 2025. Holiday-themed shows now give way to the usual mixture of comedies, dramas, and musicals from classics to contemporary works to a short play festival. Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse gets things going in early…